Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...
Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding several stories high. These somewhat plain ...
Every day, meteorologists across the United States and its territories rely on Doppler radar to track severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, torrential rains, hail, snowstorms and other severe ...